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The Other Side: A Memoir
The Other Side: A Memoir | Lacy M. Johnson
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Lacy Johnson's rich and poetic memoir, The Other Side, chronicles her brutal kidnapping and imprisonment at the hands of an ex-boyfriend, her dramatic escape, and her hard-fought struggle to recover. Lacy Johnson bangs on the glass doors of a sleepy local police station in the middle of the night. Her feet are bare; her body is bruised and bloody; U-bolts dangle from her wrists. She has escaped, but not unscathed. The Other Side is the haunting account of a first passionate and then abusive relationship; the events leading to Johnson’s kidnapping, rape, and imprisonment; her dramatic escape; and her hard-fought struggle to recover. At once thrilling, terrifying, harrowing, and hopeful, The Other Side offers more than just a true crime record. In language both stark and poetic, Johnson weaves together a richly personal narrative with police and FBI reports, psychological records, and neurological experiments, delivering a raw and unforgettable story of trauma and transformation.
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Lacy Johnson's THE OTHER SIDE makes PW's "10 Best True Crime Books."

"Here‘s an unforgettable book told from a perspective too-little featured in true crime: that of the victim. . . . smartly told, enthralling, emotionally ruinous, and all-too-real."

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The Other Side: A Memoir | Lacy M. Johnson

~a powerful memoir about how the brutality inflicted by one man leads the traumatized author on a life time quest to research and understand trauma and the complexity of her own recovery~